The UFC 83 event, which will be the first UFC event ever held in Canada, and even better with the main eventbeing a welterweight unification bout between interim title holder Georges St. Pierre and welterweight champ Matt Serra.

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The Georges St. Pierre/Matt Serra rematch is set for April 19, 2008 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It has been just over a year (April 7, 2007) since the first fight, which resulted in Serra being crowned the UFC Welterweight Champion.

Serra shocked the world with his TKO of St. Pierre just three minutes and 25 seconds into the first round. The victory is widely considered to be the biggest upset in UFC history.

Matt Serra originally applied to be on the Ultimate Fighter (TUF) show in season four (the come back). he beat out guys in his weight class giving him a title fight. Serra was definitely the underdog in that fight, everyone was 100% sure that St.Pierre was going to win that fight by knock out or submission. But infact in the first round Serra rocked St.Pierre finishing him by TKO, and becoming the NEW Welter Weight championship.

Matt Serra has not fought since. He was scheduled to defend his title at UFC 79 against Matt Hughes, but was forced to pull out of the fight with a herniated disc in his lower back.

St. Pierre, on the other hand, won a unanimous decision over Josh Koscheck and then fought and won the UFC Interim Welterweight Championship by submitting Matt Hughes via arm bar.

Georges “Rush” St. Pierre is the current Interim UFC Welterweight Champion. He has a professional MMA record of 15-2 and is widely considered to be one of the top pound-for-pound MMA fighters

in the world, along with Quinton Jackson, Fedor Emelianenko, and Anderson Silva.

UFC 83 Main Card:

Georges St. Pierre vs. Matt Serra – UFC Welterweight Title

Rich Franklin vs. Travis Lutter

Nate Quarry vs. Kalib Starnes

Michael Bisping vs. Charles McCarthy

Mac Danzig vs. Mark Bocek

Preliminary Bouts:

Jason MacDonald vs. Joe Doerksen

Sam Stout vs. Rich Clementi

Kuniyoshi Hironaka vs. Jonathan Goulet

Alan Belcher vs. Jason Day

Ed Herman vs. Demian Maia

Brad Morris vs. Cain Velasquez

Georges St. Pierre def. Matt Serra via TKO (knees to the body) at 4:45 of round two

UFC 83 Results

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is a test of pure gladiator fighting skills. The fight occurs inside an octagon that is 32 feet across. The fighters are contained by a 5 foot link fence. Most participants have martial arts training in some discipline, however, this is by no means a requirement. It has a no holds barred philosophy although some rules have been added recently.

Although there can be a lot of blood, fights usually end with joint locks or choke holds and it is generally the more skilled opponent that wins. Size is an advantage, but skill in ending the fights with a finishing move (choke out, joint locks, etc.) are the best.

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